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There are baseball players that are young, and there are baseball players that are talented, but when you combine the two traits, you will capture the attention of fans. Baseball has long been mesmerized by fresh-faced rookies who take the league by storm, excelling seemingly effortlessly against seasoned veterans who have been working on their craft for decades. We call them “five-tool players” or “phenoms” and give them nicknames like “The Natural” or “The Kid”, while actual kids hoard their rookie cards speculating that they have a future Hall of Famer in their collection.